Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth/dispair, wrath, envy, pride
The ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ or should I put it the ‘7, Deadly, Sins’. The seven part is merely score keeping and nothing more, but the ‘Deadly’, which we usually skip over is more than just an adjective, it is a warning. What is it warning against? What do the Seven Deadly Sins lead to other than Hell itself.
‘Sin‘ is also a much miss understood word, particularly by those who grew up in a Christian based society.
In the biblical Hebrew, the generic word for sin is het. It means to err, to miss the mark. It does not mean to do evil.
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After the popularity of the last post I made a few years ago on living in Berlin, I’ve decided to do a follow up that article with a run down of the current state of the central areas of Berlin and their character as I see it at this time.
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Pictured (from left): Tobias aka klipstein (München), Norman aka matsuri (Berlin), Victoria & Nikolai aka nonken (Amsterdam) and Wolfram aka mccain (München) [note: aka’s are IRC names
Yesterday I meet some Dojo developers in Berlin for the dojo.beer() which was announced on the Dojo website last week. It was a sunny day and we hit one of Berlins many beaches next to the Spree.
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I just got back from MAGISTRALE Kulturnacht’s Medialounge in which a good friend of mine has some photos on exhibit. There was a series of laptop audio performances by various artists which climaxed with a live performance of the so called Laptoporchester Berlin. Seven guys on laptops nodding their heads.They opened with a couple of pieces that were lead by a guy on a cool seven string electric guitar which had a body that was just snap on bars in the shape of a traditional guitar (see picture). They then ended with a cover of Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ which I’d only recently discovered being a big fan of Steve Riech.
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I asked Sebastian about tomato recipes as I came home from the market last Friday with 5kg of cherry tomatos (only 2.50 euros!). This is what he sent me:
This pics of the salad are from one that I made last night. It’s dead easy and rocks.
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There is a new episode of Urban Uncle out with a feature on Berlins own underground Hip-Hop MC Face Error. If your into Hip-Hop you should defiantly check it out.
Its quite a nice life I must say. The winter, I’m told, is scary and I’m about to face it but I have had winters in Europe before so I’m not too scared. The reasons I moved here after visiting form London for a week are:
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Went to this gig at Station Park last night. Was a bit of a fizzer, as far as Berlin gigs go. It was 9 Euro which is a bit pricey for most students here and there are plenty of other things happening on a Friday night in Berliner town. Otherwise there was a lot of potential as the live acts they lined up were quite good.
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So I’m in Berlin and things are going well. Have a large unfurnished room on the 1st of May with at least one über cool flatmate (the other to be found in the next few weeks) and a broken arm due to my experimenting with “bicycle catapulting”, a new sport I hope to put my name to. I have also made progress on the social front and have meet many super friendly, young Germans, all busy doing their thing and doing it well, as far as I can tell. Also, they have painted the TV tower at Alexander Platz like a giant pink ‘fussball’ (see photo, thanks to bollin @ Flickr).
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Bought my ticket to Berlin today! Leave Sydney, Australia on the 10th of April at 14:20 and arrive in Berlin on 11th April at 09:20 (via Kuala Lumpur and Amsterdam).
A new start. A new Alexander!
